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Japanese invasion of china

Jul 7, 1937

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/WorldWar2/china.htt July 7, 1937 between the Chinese and Japanese troops a clash occurred. this occurred near Peiping in North China. The secretary of state hull urged upon the Japanese government a self-restraint policy

rape of Nanking

Dec 13, 1937

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-rape-of-nanking The capital of china falls to Japanese forces, Chinese government flees away to Hankow. the Japanese general ordered the city of Nanking to be destroyed to break the spirit of Chinese resistance.

Germany's invasion of Poland

Sep 1, 1939

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005070 Germany invaded Poland with about 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes. they broke through polish defenses

German Blitzkrieg

Sep 1, 1939

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005437 Germany tried to avoid a long war. they overran half of Europe. used Blitzkrieg tactic against ploland

Pearl Harbor

Mar 7, 1941

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor In December hundreds of Japanese planes attacked the naval base in america. Japanese destroyed 20 naval vessels. eight battleships, 300 airplanes, and 2,000 soldiers and sailors died

Bataan Death March

Apr 9, 1942

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march After the U.S surrender of the Bataan Peninsula 75,000 Filipino and American Troops that were on Bataan were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Apr 9, 1943

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005188 The German troops and police entered in to the ghetto so they could deport its inhabitants

D-Day

Mar 6, 1944

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/d-day 156,000 British, Canadian, and American forces landed on five beaches along the fortified coast in Frances Normandy region

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-of-the-bulge The last major offensive of the war was launched by the Germans. they threw 250,000 soldiers into the assult

Battle of Iwo Jima

Feb 1, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-iwo-jima Japanese fought from an network of dugouts,caves,tunnels, underground installation. Iwo Jima was defended by 23,000 Japanese navy troops and army

VJ Day

Mar 2, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/v-j-day signed the official Japanese surrender aboard navy battleship, ending World War II

Dropping of the atomic bombs

Mar 6, 1945

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/atomic-bomb-dropped-on-hiroshima Dropping atomic bombs on japan had marked that World War II was over

VE Day

Mar 8, 1945

United States and Great Britain celebrate victory in Europe day, defeat of the Nazi war

Battle of Okinawa

Apr 1, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-okinawa Biggest of the Pacific Island battles, 287,000 troops involved against 130,000 Japanese soldiers

Liberation of Concentration camps

Apr 29, 1945

http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust 6 million jews were killed during the second war by the german nazi